Avenues to Antiquity Readings from Scientific American

Designed as supplementary reading and introductory archaeology and world prehistories courses, this collection of thirty articles from Scientific American highlights the major controversies, discoveries, and research projects in New World and Old World archaeology. Avenues to Antiquity is organized chronologically, taking readers from discussions of the earliest human beings to the Middle Ages. The articles demonstrate throughout the close interfaces among history, archaeology, and anthropology -- Back cover.